Chapter Five: The One-Yuan Acquisition

More importantly, Gu Mingzhu was prepared to prepay three years of archival licensing fees. “You calculated all this before we sat down,” Mingzhu said. “I simply refuse to spend two hundred million buying someone else's mistakes.” Only the craftspeople remained. Jianwei placed five percent of the new company into an apprentice trust, whose consent would be required before any sale of the core archive. Master Zhou studied her, then signed. The one-yuan acquisition closed before midnight. The news called it a bargain seized by capital. Those at the table knew Jianwei had bought something else: an industry language capable of defining authenticity.